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Thursday, September 15, 2016

In Stephen King’s book
entitled Christine a car, a vintage
Plymouth Fury, named Christine, possesses its teenage owner, Ernie. Ernie does
not know this car had been responsible for the deaths of the previous owners’
wife and daughter.

This car eventually also is
responsible for Ernie’s death. King’s book and the film based upon it are
still popular.

King is a master at writing
horror stories—this genre is effective entertainment—but what is interesting is
there is a car that people point to as being a real-life Christine.

The Golden Eagle is a 1964 Dodge Limited Edition. Its history reflects
eerie similarities to King’s fictional car. Some consider this car haunted.
Others believe it is “the most evil car in America.”

This vehicle was originally
used as a police car in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The three officers that drove
the car all died in bizarre murder-suicides. Each of these officers killed
their families and then themselves.

This Dodge after this was
sold quickly for it now had a dark reputation. Wendy Allen’s parents bought the
car. The Allen family used it on a regular basis for many years without
incident. Except for one thing-- if they drove it on the highway random doors
would fling open without cause.

The Golden Eagle

Wendy states her family was
never harmed by the car but in the 1980s and 90s several local churches decided
the car was demonic. Allen thinks this is because the car gained an unfair
reputation for killing at least 14 people.

She feels people’s fears
about the car are based in superstitions.

The most bizarre stories
about these deaths involve children. One child in the 1960s and another in the
1980s were both hit by cars and flung across the street. Their bodies were both
found under the Golden Eagle. Both died before paramedics arrived.

In 2008, another child was
dared to just touch the Dodge, he then died along with the rest of his family,
including their dog, two weeks later in a house fire.

After being vandalized.

In the 1980s members of local
churches hearing about this strange car began to vandalize it. After this
damage was done, two leaders from these vandal groups died in two separate
horrific car crashes where they both were decapitated by 18-wheelers.

Yet another four members died
after being hit by lightning. Today the old Dodge is in pieces. Members of yet
another church stole the car, chopped it up and placed these parts in various
junkyards.

Wendy Allen upset and not
believing the rumors the car is demonic requested people help her locate and
retrieve the car. The Dodge’s parts today are hidden so people can’t find them.So did these deaths actually
happen? Wendy Allen says they did but that the connections to her family car
are all just coincidence.

Friday, September 9, 2016

In 1890 a group of
businessmen came together to form the Kennard Novelty Company.

They had noted an instant
interest in talking boards. These boards had been developed by spiritualists in
order to communicate with spirits in a more efficient way than tapping on
tables.

These businessmen decided to mass market this new phenomenon in America and cash in on its
success. Their first hurtle was what to call this board. One of the men’s
sister-in-laws was a medium.

Helen Peters and the group
decided to ask the board what was its name? Peters led the session and told the
group the boards’ response was “Ouija.” She then asked the board what this word
meant—its response was “Good Luck.”

Most people who have gotten
real responses from Ouija boards have not experienced what they consider good luck.

The group patented the board
in 1891. This newly named Ouija board became an instant success and has
continued in popularity for all the decades since.

William Fuld factory.

By 1893 one of the
stockholders, William Fuld took over ownership of the company—he guided the
company through its boom years. He fell off the roof of one of his factories
and was killed—he ironically was up there following the advice of a Ouija
board. Fuld’s company was sold to Parker Brothers in 1966.

In the 1960s the board gained
more notoriety with a rising interest in the occult. By this time the sale of
boards brought in millions of dollars.

In 1973, with the release of
the film The Exorcist the boards
gained a reputation with the general public as being evil—a portal to hell.In this film the main character, a girl
named Regan, used a Ouija Board and connected with a spirit named Captain Howdy
who was actually the demon who possessed her.

This fictional film brought
to light something that many already knew. People felt the Ouija should not be
used as a parlor game for they knew how dangerous playing with one could be.

In John Harkin’s book, Ouija Board Nightmares he gives many
examples that support the fact these boards are not toys.

Early on in his book he
shares several stories of how Ouija boards have caused mental distress and even
insanity in people who played with them.

Throughout the 1920s and 30s
there are several documented cases of people who committed murders—they claimed
their Ouija boards told them to do it.

One vivid example Harkin
shares happened in 1930 in Buffalo, New York. Two Native American women were
put on trial for murdering the wife of the famous sculptor Henri Marchand.

They beat Clothide Marchand
to death with a hammer. One of them told the authorities that they had
communicated with her husband while using a Ouija board. He told her that
Marchand was a witch who had killed him.

Another example Harkin shares
involves an entire town.

In the 1920s, over a course
of a few short weeks the police in El Cerrito, California arrested seven
people. All were driven insane after playing with boards. A national headline
at the time read, Whole Town Ouija Mad.

A 15-year-old girl was found
naked and acting crazy after communicating with the spirits. In the following
days this madness spread. It even affected a local police officer that ran
naked into a bank screaming.

As a result the town officials
banned Ouija boards within the city limits.John Harkin goes on to share
numerous modern day stories of how Ouija’s have scared and caused danger to
those who have used them.

Thursday, September 1, 2016

I wrote about the Ye Olde Man and Scythe pub in England
being haunted in a previous post, here. Along with this story I share a
compelling video of a ghost that the pub captured on video.

Last month, an article
published in a local Bolton newspaper, Bolton
News, caught my attention.

To be honest I am not sure
whether to laugh or cry at this news . . .

A Chinese
artist, Lu Pingyuan traveled all the way from Shanghai to Manchester in order
to steal the decapitated ghost that haunts this Bolton pub.

It is believed this ghost is
that of James Stanley—he was the Seventh Earl of Derby. Stanley was a Royalist
whose family originally owned the pub—the Scythe is the 4th oldest
pub in Britain.

Video is on my original post.

The Earl is thought to have
spent his last few hours in the inn before he was taken out and executed—he was
beheaded in 1651 near the end of the Civil War.

The chair where the Earl sat
before his death is still in the pub.

Pingyuan upon seeing a video
of the Earl’s ghost in 2014 decided he must capture it. He followed the ghost
into the Scythe’s restroom and then performed “an incantation” to trap it in a
bottle.

Recently, Pingyuan has had
this ghost on display in a traveling exhibition. When Richard Greenwood, the
pub’s owner found out this exhibition was on display at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in
Manchester he wrote Pingyuan a letter.

Greewood expressed he wished
he had known about Pingyuan’s intention before he removed the ghost. He feels
this removal has unbalanced the natural order of things and he misses this spirit.Greenwood also states he
would have allowed the ghost of Stanley to be exhibited—for the world to
see—but that he would have insisted the ghost be returned to its home at the
pub after this.